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High Road
Urban Environmental Justice: Green Spaces
Delilah Hernandez (High Road Fellow 2022) integrates her lived experience and data to discuss environmental racism and tree canopies in Chicago, Illinois
Vindhya Kathuria (High Road Fellow 2022) authors an original poem on the need to truly listen to the East Buffalo community and respond to their needs.
"RESIST, REJECT, REBEL": Mannequins as Social Protest
Jacob Blizard (High Road Fellow 2022), presents different styles of mannequin art to inspire others to use other mediums to flout mainstream representations of identity and traverse the status quo.
Finley Williams (High Road Fellow 2022) reflects on both acknowledging systemic inequities that led to segregation, divestment, blight, transportation differentials, and health imbalances, but also refusing to accept these scourges as immutable.
Lizzie Taber (High Road Fellow 2021) describes her her work at the Citizens for Regional Transit in Buffalo, New York and inspiration to work on transit and connectivity to reduce isolation.